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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator's own crowd.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What did Fianna Fáil promise? The Senator is spinning.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: I wish to clarify a point of misinformation given this morning. When the rainbow coalition left office, there was a surplus, not a deficit. That fact must be clarified.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: In the interests of accuracy and honesty that must be put on the record of the House. There was a surplus. Will the Leader apologise to the people this morning because the Government he represents has taxed the elderly? Is the Leader listening to me? Will he apologise for the cutbacks imposed on the ordinary person who must now bail out the Leader and his Government? That is the legacy of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: ——from the Fianna Fáil party which has now killed the Celtic tiger. As a matter of urgency can we have an debate on the cost of living in this country? This Government has had its Ernest Blythe moment. It has taxed people and made the cost of living in this country unbearable for people. It should be ashamed. I have a question for the Deputy Leader of the House. We have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We have been promised in three successive budgets that the Cork docklands would receive tax incentives regarding the eastern gateway bridge. I welcome that the Minister, under pressure, included surveys of the site which cost the Government nothing.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: There is no tax and no outlay for the Government in this. Therefore, can we have a debate——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: ——on the Cork docklands and the failure of the Government yet again to commit in the budget to the eastern gateway bridge funding, a key piece of infrastructural development.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We do not have buses.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should ask the people of Grange who are waiting for bus services about public transport.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: Only certain parts?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader is an À la carte member of the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about all the cost increases?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: He is doing a bad job of replying to them.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about the costs?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What about the other ones?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: The Leader will be long gone by then. The budget states it will be 2011.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: We cleaned up the mess left by the Leader's party.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: She is not out of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Jerry Buttimer: What did the Leader's party do after that?